Influences on my calligraphy include my love of dance, and in terms of personal inspiration Edward Johnston, David Jones, Rudolf Koch and Hans Joachim Burgert have often been my invisible mentors. Travelling and teaching in Japan over the last twenty years has also had a significant impact. The large gaps between the dates of the works in this exhibition is attributable to the fact that during some periods I have also worked with directly legible speech because I also see handwrit-ing as capable of bearing strong expressive content.”